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> Socialism requires a very large government vacuuming up resources and distributing them to society as the government determines is most fair and equal. I've
by Kbelicius 2y ago
> Socialism requires a very large government vacuuming up resources and distributing them to society as the government determines is most fair and equal.
I've not read any socialist literature in a long time but a quick glance at wikipedia confirms what I remember; Government isn't a requirement for socialism. That doesn't mean that there isn't "state socialism", there is, but there is also stateless e.g. anarchism.
- _heimdall 2y agoThat gets into a bit of a gray area for me, happy to be wrong here. Socialist anarchism still revolves around some kind of communal ownership. I've never been quite sure how that could be run without some kind of governmental structure, whether it calls itself that or not. In practice, the only implementations of socialism that I'm aware of all included large governments and were/are more like communism than not.